” They call him “The Voice of The SEC” when they intro him. His show is incredibly popular throughout the SEC states”

Is this really a true statement? I know he’s popular in Alabama, but I’m thinking everywhere he is considered a tool…a tool of ‘Bama..or Auburn, whichever team has prominence in that state at a particular time.
Personally, I am not a fan.

Finebaum’s show is entertaining for just a few minutes. Basically its a show for the state of Alabama. The cornball nature of letting the trailer trash listeners rant for minutes without interruption is why its nothing more than small town local radio. I spend a lot of time on the road for business from NC to TX and its really only on MS & AL stations.

+ 1 Sirius needs to drop him or move him to the midnight shift where the truckers can talk to their mental equal. Would love to see Bill King rerun in that 3PM time slot. The show is unbearable, except for the Updates. Guy has no SEC cred.

Agree with the macro-Finebaum bashing, but for chrissakes Macallan take it easy on our country’s great and upstanding truckers! You like your $1.29/doz. eggs and $800 fancy-pants TVs lilke the rest of our ilk, yes? These are good and dirty Americans like you and I.

Nothing at all against truckers, but at that time of night they would be the only ones riding around having to listen to that. Plus it would keep the Updykes up late and off the airwaves during the day.

It’s not just an opinion. One could say he is the Howard Stern of ‘Bama radio, only without the media savvy, interviewing skills, voice, entertainment ability, production value, choice of guests, screening of callers, etc. Otherwise, he’s right there…a legend in his own mind. Just ask him.

He’s just not up to it this week Ausdawg. What with the other worriers and the Senator putting up good news and everything. On a Fri before game night, his head should be hung lower than my pecker. They just don’t make worriers like Munson any more. Sigh.

So, you don’t like Stern because he has hair longer than your wife’s; a nose that challenges the mike?
So, your vibe won’t raise up for him even when he is talking sex?
So, you don’t like him because you thought Sirius Radio was spelled with an “e” and you got hooked?
So, you think Finebaum is a Serious Narc ?
So…..

Maybe becuase of my wandering ways, or whatever, but I have yet to understand fully Stern’s hold on some essence of legitimacy. I consider him fully a self-serving, tact-less and gutless hack. Beyond all that, I’m sure he is a swell guy. But, too, I’ll wager he couldn’t talk a lick of college football so he is expendable.

Mr. Dukes MAY have some more experience in the arena than some of us but clearly he doth notteth understand that in writing, less is more, and that there is a reason books are generally written on white paper.

Having tried to read his blog before and found my eyes crossed by the prose, and the amateurish knockout type, I am not going to worry about Ben Dukes.

I’m not trying to call him stupid and enjoy some of his posts. Seems like he has a beef with at least one blog in particular, and doesn’t like the way DawgBone determines readership by increasing font size on “sexy” post titles. Somewhat fair criticism, even if he did not word it all that well.

Several of those have cried “Wolf!” so long that I just don’t even give a damn to visit. That goes especially to “Huge”, “New”, “Secret” and “Insider”-capped headlines about recruiting. Sameold, sameold, every time.

We know Barnhardt is Mr. Conventional Wisdom or the voice of the establishment. If this were politics, he’d be on This Week as either Geo. F. Will or Cokie Roberts (depending on your POV). Finebaum is the troll/infotanier. He’s Limbaugh. Or maybe Sam Donaldson. . . No, he’s Limbaugh. Just a blow hard making shit up to get the base riled.

Who is the reliable, informative journo we should all follow on twitter?

I’d go with that CBS character, Bruce Feldman. Also, the Chattanooga Times reporter, Dave Paschall, seems to churn out good stuff. And if Tim Brando didn’t do the national studio broadcast he would be a more trusted, boots-in-the-region, go-to guy.

Finebaum is a douche. Pinkel not liking him just means he has good instincts.

I haven’t read enough of Ben Dukes to have an opinion of him either way, but I do agree with the premise of his article today. As a matter of fact it was very timely, as I found myself clicking on yet another article from Dawg Bark only to confirm, once again, that most of their contributors don’t know the difference between there and their, or have even a 5th grade command of the English language.

Ultimately it’s my fault my fault for continuing to click. I will do better.

But is that wildly different from, say, at least a 1/3rd of the Dawgvent circa the late 90s? If anything, poorly-written blogs will get fewer views than some war between beans and whatever the other side was called in the pro-/con-Donnan days posters.

From an AP article today: “Conference commissioners are considering the possibility of adding another game to be part of the semifinal rotation for the new college football playoff.” Honestly, I’m not sure I followed the intention, but I gathered it was a need to admit more teams to a “BCS level game” than the original proposal. So while not a direct expansion of the playoffs now at 4 teams, who are they kidding? Adding more to this post-season mix is just a precursor to expanding the playoffs…maybe even before the first one is played.

And if the right side of our OL gets abused by Vandy, and we don’t commit TE and FB support to protect Murray, then I’m going to blame Bobo, and Ben Dukes can just quit reading my opinion.

Senator, the rocks uncovered in the NCAA suit are way more interesting than anything either Ben Dukes or Paul Finebaum has to say. Apparently the insecurity of emails has not penetrated the moral high ground of the NCAA or EA Sports, which one would assume has pretty good cyber savy.

“Months earlier, e-mails suggest the NCAA had finally embraced using actual players’ names from rosters in the video games. A CLC executive noted in 2007 that Greg Shaheen — then a senior NCAA executive — had helped EA Sports make a presentation before then-NCAA President Myles Brand.”

The N C A A is going to lose big on this if they cannot buy a verdict. The stupidity and hypocrisy housed there is astounding. Damn bunch of greedy fools. I am worried because the conference leaders appear to be taking ques from the Indy stooges.